In the present time, there are many powerful software technologies and solutions that are highly capable of changing the way we look at IT landscape. Of all the new technologies available in the market, virtualization has enhanced productivity and flexibility. Primarily, it is really important to understand what exactly virtualization is and how it works. Once you get an idea of the theory behind this, you will easily understand the functions and features of the virtualization solutions.

The term ‘virtualization’ refers to something that is virtual or not physically existing. It performs hardware virtualization, often called ‘full platform virtualization’. It uses the available resources of the system, divides them without interfering, and thus sets a virtual machine that is emulated and abstracted. You can run an operating system on this virtual machine.

VMware is a market leader in virtualization. VMware has a wide variety of these types of solutions including some free solutions that run both on Linux and Microsoft platforms. Here, we will discuss two VMware products which are free, namely VMware Player and VMware Server.

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If you want the best virtualization software for your home or office, a number of solutions are available in the market. But to choose from these solutions, you need to be able to compare two or more of them to get the solution that fits your requirement. In this article we go over the different types of requirements, and how to weigh or compare one Virtualisation Software against another when looking for a solution. We cover not solutions, but how to compare the solutions. In such comparison, we also mention different solutions as examples.

Desktop vs Server Software

A desktop Virtualization software is the one that you will use on your Windows, Linux or iMac home or office computers. Server solutions are the ones that are run on enterprise level server in data centers and such setups.

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When you want to use your Microsoft Windows machine as a host operating system to run virtual guest machines, you require Windows virtualization software. There are many such softwares in the market, at varying prices; but there are also some which are available for free. Here we review some free Wndows virtualization software.

Software Reviews

· VMware
VMware Inc is the leading company in this domain, and most of its products are paid products. VMware Player one product that is available for free. VMware solutions can run guest machines with different operating systems that run on the x86 and x86-64 family of microprocessors. These include Windows operating systems such as Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, as well as the Unix/Linux flavors such as FreeBSD, Debian, Ubuntu and OpenSuse. VMware has a virtual appliance marketplace, from where you can download copies of different Linux flavors, called appliances, that are ready to be used. Other different kinds of appliances are also available.

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